Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...
Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.
In 2021 and 2022, NASA’s InSight lander picked up the tremors coming from the depths of Mars. These Marsquakes were quickly ...
Earthquakes are a common occurrence in Hawaiʻi. If you subscribe to emergency, earthquake or volcano notifications, the ...
An estimated magnitude 7.6 earthquake hit the Caribbean Sea on Saturday, north of Honduras, and neighboring islands and ...
A massive 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck in the Caribbean on Saturday evening, approximately 130 miles southwest of the Cayman Islands. The National Weather Service ( NWS) Tsunami Alerts has ...
Earthquakes generate two types of waves. Primary waves, or P waves, are the first waves produced by a quake, and move the ground in the same direction that the wave is moving. Shear waves, or S ...
The fastest wave is called a P wave, and it shakes the earth by ... The Ring of Fire is where most of Earth's really big earthquakes happen. For instance, the largest earthquake ever recorded ...